#Buckenham

[opelman]

Recce by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Photo Reconnaissance Spitfire PL983 displays in the skies above Norfolk during the 2023 Old Buckenham Air Show. Aircraft: Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI PL983 (G-PRXI). Location: Old Buckenham Aerodrome, Norfolk.

[florealegiardini]

Enchanted Bluebell Wood

Buckenham, England, United Kingdom ~ Steve Docwra

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[browsethestacks]

Firestorm

Art by Phil Buckenham

[curtvilescomic]

Excalibur commission by Phil Buckenham

[taylorthrift]

My publisher is finally putting together Warning: Dead Inside together, so it might actually see the light of day which would be kind of amazing. I'm sharing because like, i'm super proud of all the work that was put into this-but I don't expect any of my mutuals to like this. I won't be posting much about it, just saw this today and was excited to share.

Illustration and Coloring by the amazing Phil Buckenham. Script and original idea by me.

[illyanarasputinfan]

Phil Buckenham

[colorful-white-ideas]

(Phil buckenham on IG )

As a fan of the crow This is beautiful 🖤

[usafphantom2]

Clive Denney shortly after landing at Old Buckenham Airfield in the Hawker Hurricane Mk. XII (G-HURI)…The Hurricane pays tribute to 302 ‘City of Poznan’ Squadron & both Flt Lt Tadeusz Chlopik & Wing Commander Julian Kowalski, with a ‘dual scheme’…@FlightPolish #AvGeek

@ShutterbugWGC via X

[subdee]

And the other way to look at this, really, is not about AI at all, but seeing this as the continuation of a gradual corporate incursion into the early spirit of sharing that characterised the internet. I say incursion but maybe the better word is enclosure, as in enclosure of the commons. And this positions AI as just a new method by which companies try to extract value from the things people share freely, and capture that value for themselves. And maybe the way back from this is being more intentional about building our communities in ways where the communities own them. GameFAQs was created to collate some useful stuff together for a community, and it ended up as part of a complicated chain of corporate mergers and acquisitions. But other communities experienced the kinds of upheaval that came with that, and then decided to create their own sites which can endure outside of that - I’m thinking here especially of Archive of Our Own, the biggest repository for fan-writing online. And incidentally, the source of 8.2 million words in that AI training set, larger even than Reddit.

The Washington Post published an article - GATED, which is exactly what "How to Find Things Online" talks about - that allows you to search Google's C4 training dataset, and this is what turns up for Ao3. 8.2 million words!!!!! No wonder the African content moderators are striking for better pay to remove all the porn from the chatGPT results!!!!!

Anyway. This is a very good accessible article about our upcoming... what? Retreat to unsearchable private communities that lock newcomers out so that people can talk to other people, not robots? Increasingly paywalled and corporatized commons? Future that looks like The Matrix, culture permanently frozen at "the peak of your civilization" as all the future training sets keep regurgitating the same info that millions of people put online, for free, from 1990 - 2020?

Here's AO3's recent post on their AI policies BTW, where they explain that they already removed the website from the Common Crawl in 2020 and recommend, for now, setting your new works to archive-only if you don't want them used to train commercial AI without your consent.:

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888?fbclid=IwAR0GgjG4nOWZh7WuwNT4bPCEnLd-sX1j9PxYNx7fQoC5OGQST24SOr5b1lw

Archive-locking as the only real solution makes sense, but also, is again exactly what this article talks about in terms of the incentives moving from putting things online for free where anyone can access them, to putting them behind a gate of some kind to keep the community a nice place **for** the community that built it.

Anyway. May AO3 live a long, long time. Not just because it's the most popular website in the WORLD in category: "books and publishing" but because it's being increasingly recognized as a gold-star example of a community seeing where the corporatization trend is going, and getting out ahead of it to make a community space for humans to share their work with other humans, for free.

[msamba]

BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Year of the Corvids

Corvids (Crows, Rooks, Ravens, Magpies & Jays) have long been seen as both deeply symbolic and possessed of astonishing intelligence behind their twinkling eye but is it consciousness? In the company of wildlife recording supremo Chris Watson, Clayton sets off on a burning blue autumn day to watch one of the great corvid happenings, the roost at Buckenham and wonder at the temporal, spatial and…

[sbknews]

Legendary racer Carl Fogarty makes surprise visit to popular bike meet-up

Nearly 2,000 motorbike fanatics were left overjoyed when legendary racer Carl Fogarty made a surprise visit to their free weekly village meet-up. ‘Foggy’, a four-time World Superbike champion, is still adored by an army of loyal supporters after becoming one of Britain’s most popular sporting figures in the 1990s. And many were left grinning from ear to ear when they got the chance to unexpectedly rub shoulders with him in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, on Tuesday. “I come every week, it’s my local place to come for a meet. It’s great to meet new faces and, obviously, you never know who might turn up,” said Carl Thomas, 41, from Norwich. “It’s great Foggy was here. They’re all heroes, he’s a rider isn’t he so he’s a hero. I’m a biker so they all are. I let him do his thing, I’m not one of these who would jump all over him. He’s got more than enough people.” Steve Kingston-Miles, better known as Bumble, also made the near 20-mile trip from the city to the popular Two-Wheel Tuesday gathering hosted by the Ox & Plough pub. “I got a sneaky photo with him,” he laughed. “I didn’t know he was coming. I came up because I thought he (friend, Carl Thomas) might be here and he said: ‘Foggy’s coming’ and I was like ‘is he?’ We were looking for him and obviously we found him. I wasn’t sure what I was going to say to him, I didn’t have a clue - probably ‘you came in the van didn’t you?’ “I am surprised to see him in Norfolk. I’ve never met him before but I have seen him race.” The Blackburn-based superbike icon, who won I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2014, was in Norfolk on business catching up with North Lynn-based Bikesure - the motorcycle insurance broker he has been brand ambassador for since 2012.

The one-time King of the Jungle said: “It was a fantastic evening and an amazing turnout of bikes. “The weather was amazing, it’s a great free event. I’ve been to quite a few bike meetings over the years, but I’ve never seen anything like that one before. It was a huge turnout. “I was mucking in, flipping a few burgers and pulling a few pints, and if I’m ever down in Norfolk again I’ll definitely be calling in on the Ox & Plough on a Two-Wheel Tuesday.” Visiting the popular event on the village green also gave him the opportunity to catch up with his long-time friend Martin Williams. When the 62-year-old got married, Foggy’s wife Michaela was the maid of honour. “I’m used to walking around with him in places and us getting stopped,” joked the former Blackburn native who relocated to Stiffkey. “It’s better than it used to be, it was manic in the 90s. But I still rip Foggy when it happens. We used to have a laugh by me pretending to take photos for fans and actually just taking a load of selfies - and one picture of the person with Carl obviously. It was nice to catch up and see some bikes, including the Ducati he made a short trip on to arrive. I hadn’t seen him for six months and it’s always great to catch up, he’s a top bloke.” Two-Wheel Tuesday has been running since 2013 and was the brainchild of former pub landlord Ben Devlin. Current proprietor, Dave Tranmer, has overseen the event as it continues to flourish and attract thousands of bikers and non-riders alike from the first Tuesday in April until the end of October. Mr Tranmer said: “We’ve never had anyone as famous as Carl Fogarty here before. It was a privilege to have him here and that he was even interested to come. It just proves how popular Two-Wheel Tuesday is. He had a great night as far as I’m concerned, it was a pleasure to have him. “There were 1,200 bikes here, which equates to about 1,800 people on the green. It gets bigger and bigger every year. Bikers love it, most of the village love it - there’s a few that don’t, but what can I do? I try and keep it as peaceful and friendly as I can. “It’s so popular because it’s on the village green. We give them a variety of food, a variety of drinks and there’s never any trouble. There’s loads of places to park and I think it’s in an area where the public can come to the green, have a great night and look at bikes - and bikers love people looking at their bikes. It’s just a great, peaceful evening to be honest.” Bikesure was there to capture his shock appearance and put together a short heartwarming 90-second video that you can watch here: Read the full article

[browsethestacks]

Into The Spider-Verse

Art by Phil Buckenham

[18thfoot]

25th February 1794 General Sir James Murray was appointed Colonel of the Regiment, succeeding General Sir John Sebright. Murray changed his name to Pulteney for inheritance reasons on 22 July 1794, shortly before marrying his cousin Henriette Pultney in London. Murray was born about 1755, the son of Colonel Robert Murray, a Scottish soldier. He had his first commission purchased for him, in the 19th Foot, when he was still in his mid-teens in 1770. The following year he was a Captain in the 57th Foot, although he did not begin active soldiering until 1775. From 1776 to 1778 he served in America and was wounded twice, at the Battles of Brandywine and White Marsh. In 1778 he purchased a commission as Major in the 4th Foot with whom he served in the West Indies. Still only 25 he purchased the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 94th Foot in 1780. In 1790 Murray was appointed Colonel and Aide de Camp to King George III. In the same year he was elected to the House of Commons as an MP. Murray served with the Grand Old Duke of York and his 10,000 men in Flanders in 1793 before being promoted to Major General in December. He was back in Holland as Lieutenant General in 1799, where he was once again wounded. By this time he was Pulteney, and he fought his last campaign in an attempt to capture the Spanish naval base at Ferrol in August 1800. Having served in a command in England, Pulteney was appointed Secretary at War in 1807. He died of complications after losing an eye in a hunting accident in Buckenham, Norfolk on 26th April 1811, having been Colonel of the 18th, Royal Irish for 17 years. #18thfoot #royalirishregiment Picture credit https://www.nationalgalleries.org/search/sitter/sir-james-murray-pulteney https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHrBYWtaBl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[easterlyartists]

SOLD! Part of "Summer Grasses" (pen, pencil and ink) by @easterlyartists member @eileencoxonart Eileen Coxon, heading off to - appropriately enough - fresh pastures in London's Chelsea, courtesy of @buckenhamgallery Buckenham Gallery in Southwold. --------------- #eileencoxonart #easterlyartists #buckenhamgalleries #britishartists #contemporaryartpainting #modernartists #visualartwork #suffolkart #suffolkartist #suffolkartists #lowestoftart #summerart #summerarts #summerpainting #grassart #grassartwork #plantart #plantartist #plantartwork #botanicalartist #penandinkart #penandinkdrawing #penandinkartist #pencilarts #pencilyartsworld #pencilartists #pencilartworks #pencilartdrawing #inkartist #inkdrawing  (at Lowestoft) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA-zoZj5vQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[illyanarasputinfan]

Phil Buckenham